(194) Floods of bloods

“Crying inconsolably, I found myself seated amongst the dead bodies. I had still not got the news of one of my loved ones. After searching vehemently for several hours, I gave into the mounting pressure of negativity and sat crying aloud. No one came to console me or wipe my tears”.

Tears were real and had wet my pillow. After giving a self help to break through the dream, I woke up to a better reality. I was thankfully not the part of the massacre, neither was the one I was searching for, so impatiently. I sat thinking, why was I treated with such a painful dream. Concluded that it could have been the result of the continuous doses of the news, I had been following on the death toll and the tragedies of the Kedarnath misfortune.

Mere dream of losing someone shook me to the roots, I could very well imagine, what a tough time those must be going through, who lost their loved ones, who could not trace their family people and who actually went through the whole calamity.

What remained commendable was the painstaking, never ending, rescue job done by the various defense personnel. Political parties, besides extending the help, did not refrain from earning the political mileage and publicity out of the whole mishap. And if reports are to be believed, many local people and others from the surrounding neighborhood, did their best to loot and exploit those helpless pilgrims, who got stuck in there, due to the floods and the destruction created thereby. What a shame?

Reports are still pouring in talking about possible scams and gimmicks taken place during the whole evacuation process, but what matters and should be applauded in the whole exchange is the thankless, endless job the soldiers extended to save as many people as they could, in spite of losing their own 20 brave-hearts. Could not but only thank them heartily for what they did?

And mercifully, I remained amongst the luckier ones who did not become the part of this catastrophe in reality, although kind of experienced the pain through the dream. Realized one more time in one more way, how people close to your heart never departs, they always resides in you. And you always love them more than you realize.